Isabelle Reinecke is the founding Executive Director of Grata Fund, a leading not-profit based at the University of NSW that campaigns, incubates litigation and funds people and communities challenging systemic gridlocks across human rights, climate injustice and democratic freedoms.

Isabelle leads Grata’s strategy and collaboration with some of Australia’s top legal minds, civil society organisations and community advocates to support and design cases to advance and protect rights and freedoms, including climate change injustice, exposing abuse in offshore refugee detention centres, and establishing new rights to humane housing in remote First Nations communities.

Isabelle spent more than 10 years as a director and lawyer at Getup, Immigration Advice and Rights Centre, and as a solicitor at Clayton Utz, where she acted for First Nations clients seeking stolen wages reparations in remote East Kimberley.

Isabelle is the author of Courting Power: Law Democracy and the Public Interest in Australia and an expert in the intersection of the law, politics and power. She was named the 2022 Emerging NFP Leader in Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards, is a Churchill Fellow, and the 2021 Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia Fellow.

A mum of one, she is part of the big conversations about providing more support for working mothers and female leaders.